Horatio Nelson

Dr. Marianne Czisnik trained and practiced as a lawyer in Germany before researching aspects of Nelson's life, image and iconography at the University of Edinburgh. A leading Nelson scholar, she has published on a wide range of subjects related to Nelson.

'The distinctive nature of this book is that it focuses on the way Nelson was seen by contemporaries and subsequent generations...and is based on a complete mastery of the correspondence between Nelson and Lady Hamilton. This is a book of real insight: there is no blandness - it is very readable.' Dr Michael Duffy, University of Exeter 'Marianne Czisnik's Horatio Nelson: a Controversial Hero demonstrates that there is still much more to understand about this man. Czisnik, significantly not of the UK, demonstrates the necessity to suspend for a time the business of writing full but superficial and subjective biographies, and to take a more clinical and analytical approach to a character that even contemporaries acknowledged as complex...The result is that we get to know Nelson more intimately than in even the fullest of the other biographies.' History in Focus, Issue 9, The Sea